time to slow down
and breathe
Visual poetry by the epicurean sophisticate, Konstantinos Implikian
Savannah, GA
Boatspotting
From Hutchinson Island, overlooking River Street. All boats are welcome on Savanna River, from floating skyscrapers aka ocean-going vessels and their accompanying tugs, to those cute and colourful Belles ferry boats that provide free transit across the river, in style. 
The Savannah Belles Ferry fleet includes four vessels named in honour of four distinguished women from Savannah’s history: Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the first American Girl Scout troops, Susie King Taylor, who gained her freedom from slavery at the age 14 and went on become a nurse during the Civil War and later opened one of Savannah’s first schools for African-American children, Florence Martus, the Waving Girl, and Mary Musgrove, a Native American who served as an interpreter for General Oglethorpe during the founding of Savannah.
April 7th, 2018
Beyond Savannah || Wormsloe Historic Site
The oldest of Georgia’s tidewater estates, Wormsloe has remained in the hands of the same family since the mid-1730s. Claimed and developed by founding Georgia colonist Noble Jones, Wormsloe has successively served as a military stronghold, plantation, country residence, farm, tourist attraction, and historic site. Nonetheless, Wormsloe’s most characteristic and defining use has been as the ancestral home of Noble Jones’s descendants. [source & further details]
But, for us, it was the long walk under this wondrous oak tree arch, the omnipresent moss providing even more shade – or cover from the rain. It was raining that day but we still preferred to walk rather than taking the car down the avenue, like so many other visitors did. Because listening to the magic chorus of rain and bird song, inhaling that fresh, woody scent of rain as it blended with the earth and fallen leaves, was an experience we wouldn’t have changed for the world. Not even for a dry pair of shoes.
April 7th, 2018
Savannah || Black Magic (Floating Objects & Fireworks)
A wedding dress floating at a window, forever waiting for the bride to be.
A floating boat, its golden coat glowing in the dark.
And then, there were fireworks.
PS: Fireworks are a recurrent event in Savannah, taking place the first Friday of every month at 9:15pm, at the Waterfront.
April 6th, 2018
Savannah || Foxy Loxy Cool
A coffee shop that doubles up as a Tex-Mex cantina? A strange combination that shouldn’t work, yet in Foxy Loxy it does very well, thank you.
Off the touristy historic district, Foxy Loxy has everything going for it: a quirky interior, delicious offerings, decent coffee and a prime location in Thomas Square, a trendy neighbourhood with antique shops, vintage stores, gastropubs and fine late 19th century homes in various architectural styles. No wonder it is a favourite among locals and SCAD students. And, for the short time we stayed in Savannah, ours too.
And if that’s not enough, the cafe sits right next to the Gingerbread House, an incredible example of Steamboat Gothic architecture, the only one we found in Savannah (scroll down to the last two photos)!
Foxy Loxy Cafe, Savannah
April 2018
Savannah || Postcards
Seen through a pair of funky ’70s blue-green shades
Savannah, GA
April 2018
Savannah || Bonaventure Cemetery
Pondering what makes us human, our mortality, the ephemeral nature of life. The older I get, the more attracted to cemeteries I seem to become. Their tranquility; the funerary art; trinkets left on white stones of the beloved… In Bonaventure, it was also the giant oak trees covered in moss, moving ever so elegantly in the summer breeze; like mature ladies letting their long, natural grey hair down before they go to sleep…
Savannah, GA
April 6th, 2018
Tears in rain
In memory of Rutger Hauer, who acted in more films than I would care to count, but will forever be remembered in our hearts as Roy Batty, the terrifying yet poetic replicant fighting against ”retirement” – which in the dystopian world of Blade Runner, meant quite simply ”his life”.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
As fate would have it, Rutger Hauer died on 19 July 2019 – the same year that Roy was ”retired”.
Savannah || SCAD Welcome Center
As I mentioned earlier in this series, you’d have to work hard to escape SCAD when you visit Savannah. But every site being so interesting, bursting with fresh ideas, thought-provoking art or simply delicious scones, you’d probably wouldn’t want to miss it, anyway!
So, here we are, after an extensive look at the SCAD Museum of Art, a refreshing afternoon tea at the Gryphon, and some fun time with snooty ceramic faces at the shopSCAD, entering the place were it all started: the Poetter Hall, the first building that SCAD acquired in 1979, now home to their Admissions & Welcome Center, occasionally doubling up as an exhibition & event space. This is SCAD, after all.
May and Paul Poetter, founders of the Savannah College of Art and Design (along with Paula Wallace and Richard Rowan)
Allan Drumond
Un Petit Tour de Lacoste
Digital print from original illustration
Savannah, GA
April 5th, 2018
Savannah || Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
Remember the third site of the Telfair Museums, which we had yet to see? Here it is, in all its grand splendour, starting from the humblest, the slaves’ quarters, walking our way through the garden and into the mansion.
We enter through a magnificent entrance hall into the largest room of the house, which is none other than the formal dining room; we work our way up an elegant staircase which rises to a landing, splits into two flights and, most interestingly, forms a bridge that connects the front and rear portions of the second floor – a rather unique feature, one we have never seen before (or since) in any of the mansions we visited; we peek into the various, lavishly decorated rooms, and the less-than-lavish service ones, in the front and rear halls of the second floor.
The two quarters could not have been more different.
You can find more information about the history, architecture and owners of the Owens-Thomas House, on the museum’s website.
April 5th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 